Description
Puckington, a parish in Somerset, on the river Isle, 3 miles N of Ilminster station on the G.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Ilminster. Acreages-774; population of the civil parish, 178; of the ecclesiastical, 189. The manor and most of the land belong to Viscount Portman. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £170 with residence. Patron, Viscount Portman. The church is Later English, has been restored, and consists of nave, transept, and chancel, with, porch and tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
